Malaria Disease
Introduction:
This disease is a life-threatening
disease causing acute febrile illness by parasites called Plasmodium
falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P.malariae, and P. knowlesi because of infected
mosquitoes that are called Anopheles mosquito.
This disease can be preventable and curable if early recognition and
early treatment. This disease can be transmitted from person to person.
The transmission of the disease:
This disease can be transmitted from
person to person by blood through blood transfusion or from the mother to the
baby before or after delivery. Also, if the healthy person deals with infected
person.
The risk of infection:
This disease risk depends on many
factors:
1-
The
type of mosquitoes that transmitted the infection
2-
The
sessions that mostly in winter rainy sessions
3-
Some
countries are tropical countries.
4-
Presence
of swamps and water pools that mosquitoes lived around it.
Signs and symptoms of malaria:
The signs and symptoms of malaria
begin after 10 to 15 days from infected mosquito bites the infected person can
feel:
1-
Increase
in body temperature and fever.
2-
Headaches
and chills can experience.
3-
Tiredness
and muscle pain.
4-
Nausea,
vomiting, and diarrhea.
5-
If
malaria is not treated the person can have organ damage and failures.
6-
Confusion,
coma, and death.
If children are infected with malaria
disease the symptoms are:
1-
Suffering
from severe anemia.
2-
Respiratory
distress.
3-
Cerebral
malaria.
Some symptoms are difficult to
recognize malaria and the person who develops partial immunity can be having no
symptoms.
Prevention of malaria disease:
The person can protect him self to
get malaria disease by the following:
1-
Prevent
mosquito bites by protecting the environment with mosquito spray that is safe
and effective.
2-
Some
types of creams used to prevent mosquito bites
3-
The clothes must be covering the arms and legs
4-
Use
mosquito nets for babies to prevent mosquito bites.
5-
Keep
mosquitos out of the room by lodging the air conditioning, doors, and windows
with the screen or net.
6-
If
you get a mosquito bite don’t itch it but use mosquito cream and if you
suspected malaria disease by having some signs and symptoms go to the nearest
hospital for treatment.
References:
www.who.int.
(n.d.). Malaria. [online] Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/malaria?gclid=CjwKCAjwzJmlBhBBEiwAEJyLu0BR_-f1uKkrZVgOYtl5beWGrRWEQh8XIBgY4E_6aWT78JmOFECKyBoCofoQAvD_BwE
[Accessed 6 Jul. 2023].
CDC
(2022). CDC - Malaria - About Malaria - FAQs. [online] Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Available at:
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html.